This man's first mature work was an Impromptu in C major dedicated to Mademoiselle Eduard Manet, while vocal works include settings of Ephraim Mikhael's L'Ille Heureuse, Catulle Mendes' Chanson por Jeanne, and a collaboration with a young Edmond Rostand for Ode a la Musique. After he became ill in later life, Ricardo Vines and Maurice Ravel cheered him up at his house by playing his Three Valses Romantiques. His piano works like "Sous-Bois," "Melancolie," and "Idylle" appeared in a collection of ten pieces that closed with "Scherzo-Valse" and was called Pieces Pittoresques. One of his most famous operas features Count Laski, who owns the slave girl Minka, and that opera was the source of the Fete Polonaise. For 10 points, name this French composer of the operas Le Roi Malgre Lui and L'Etoi
This man's first mature work was an Impromptu in C major dedicated to Mademoiselle Eduard Manet, while vocal works include settings of Ephraim Mikhael's L'Ille Heureuse, Catulle Mendes' Chanson por Jeanne, and a collaboration with a young Edmond Rostand for Ode a la Musique. After he became ill in later life, Ricardo Vines and Maurice Ravel cheered him up at his house by playing his Three Valses Romantiques. His piano works like "Sous-Bois," "Melancolie," and "Idylle" appeared in a collection of ten pieces that closed with "Scherzo-Valse" and was called Pieces Pittoresques. One of his most famous operas features Count Laski, who owns the slave girl Minka, and that opera was the source of the Fete Polonaise. For 10 points, name this French composer of the operas Le Roi Malgre Lui and L'Etoile, who also composed orchestral works like Marche Joyeuse and Espana. 
This man's first mature work was an Impromptu in C major dedicated to Mademoiselle Eduard Manet, while vocal works include settings of Ephraim Mikhael's L'Ille Heureuse, Catulle Mendes' Chanson por Jeanne, and a collaboration with a young Edmond Rostand for Ode a la Musique.
{Emmanuel Chabrier}